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Many states use township as a governmental level between county and municipality. Most states have counties with unincorporated areas (no municipal government). Municipal governments are called cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and townships, and can form 1-3 layers of government.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
Country partly in Europe and partly in Asia. East North Central states: 780,541: Division of the United States. Contains the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Union between Sweden and Norway (United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway) 774,184: A Kingdom in Scandinavia between 1814-1905. Goldfields–Esperance: 771,276
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
Country partly in Europe and partly in Asia. East North Central states: 780,541: Division of the United States. Contains the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Union between Sweden and Norway (United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway) 774,184: A Kingdom in Scandinavia between 1814-1905. Goldfields–Esperance: 771,276
Multiple sources give different estimates of the area enclosed by the imaginary border of Asia. The New York Times Atlas of the World gives 43,608,000 km 2 (16,837,000 sq mi). [1] Chambers World Gazetteer rounds off to 44,000,000 km 2 (17,000,000 sq mi), [2] while the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia gives 44,390,000 km 2 (17,140,000 sq mi). [3]
Below is a list of countries in Asia by area. [1] Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.